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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:53 am | February 18, 2014
Humana is settling charges that it required some small businesses to buy life insurance policies along with health coverage going back to 2006.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:05 am | February 18, 2014
If behavioral health centers want to be a part of the burgeoning integrated care environment, they have to offer clients same day access.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:50 pm | February 17, 2014
In today's tepid economy, recent divorcees may be reliant on their former spouses' insurance or may seek to enroll after the fact, something health plan administrators should watch out for.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:03 pm | February 17, 2014
Humana is working with a health IT company to roll out an electronic prior authorization model that enables physicians to simplify prescription prior authorization requests so patients can get quicker access to their medications.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:56 am | February 17, 2014
The Aetna Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hartford-based insurance giant, is looking to make the cellphone the centerpiece of efforts to improve public health access with a three-year, $4 million Digital Health Initiative.
By Mary Mosquera | 09:36 am | February 17, 2014
The healthcare industry's transformation to value-based models has spurred retail pharmacies to expand their roles and traditional providers to partner with them.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:36 am | February 17, 2014
When CVS Caremark announced that it would no longer sell cigarettes, it was the latest sign of the direction retail pharmacies have been moving in over the last few years.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 03:48 pm | February 14, 2014
If post-acute care providers want to participate in new care and payment models like accountable care organizations, they need to take the initiative.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:32 am | February 14, 2014
People in much of Minnesota, northwestern Pennsylvania and Tucson, Ariz., are getting the best bargains from the health care law's new insurance marketplaces: premiums half the price or less than what insurers in the country's most expensive places are charging.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:21 am | February 14, 2014
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending February 14, 2014.